WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives.

Features:

• Introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially for executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
• Offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
• Supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB.





• Complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z archives.
• Supports NTFS file security and data streams.
• Offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
• Provides functionality for creating a ’solid’ archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
• Offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
• Offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
• Offers a number of service functions, such as setting a password, adding archive and file comments.

What’s new:

1. Bugs fixed:

• beta 1 could display random garbage characters in context menu in Windows x64;
• beta 1 could display only a part of files in tar.gz archives;
• beta 1 could fail to set timestamps for files extracted from ZIP archives;
• beta 1 could issue a rename error message and abort when creating RAR volumes with Unicode characters in archive name.

Download: WinRAR 3.80 Beta 2